Americans spend millions of dollars each year trying to give their children an edge in the college admissions process. In Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean: An Expert's Advice for Getting into College, Joyce Slayton Mitchell packs 35 years of college counseling experience into one concise admission guidebook, providing practical advice on such topics as researching colleges, improving standardized testing scores, writing essays and interviewing. With intelligence, ease and a sense of humor, Mitchell helps students get through the stressful college admissions process. (Sept.)